or Deonhully, a town and fort of Hindustan, in Southern India, belonging to the rajah of Mysore. The inhabitants have an extraordinary custom, by which every mother, on the marriage of her eldest daughter, is bound to amputate two of her fingers. Some say that it was the birth-place of Hyder Ali, and that it was here where he made his first essay in arms. It was taken by Lord Cornwallis in 1791. It is nineteen miles N.N.E. of Bangalore. Long. 77. 54. E. Lat. 13. 15. N.